NET August 27:
NASA's
STS-115 shuttle flight aboard the
Atlantis orbiter is slated to deliver a new truss segment and solar
arrays to the International Space Station ISS in a launch to be staged from
Kennedy Space
Center in Florida. Launch window runs
through Sept. 18. 4:25-4:35 p.m. EDT (2025-2035 GMT).

October 7: The European Space Agency's MetOp-A meteorological
satellite to launch atop a Russian-built Soyuz rocket from Baikonur
Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

October 18: A
Russian-built Soyuz rocket is set to launch the automated supply ship
Progress 23 to the restock the International Space Station in a
flight to begin at Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.

November
2: An Atlas 5 rocket to boost a clutch
of seven satellites, among them the Orbital Express demonstration
vehicle, under the U.S. Air Force's Space Test Program 1 (STP 1)
mission to fly from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

November
4: A Delta 4 rocket is slated to loft
the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Program-17 (DMSP-17) in
a spaceflight to be staged from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in
Florida.

November
27: NASA's THEMIS spacecraft is set to
ride a Delta 2 rocket spaceward in a launch to be staged from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

November
15: An Atlas 5 rocket to loft a
classified spy satellite NROL-28 for the U.S. National Reconnaissance
Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.